July 17, 2025: Computer Programming Language Panel

[Walter Bright]

Languages like Java only do allocation on the GC. GC is very heavily used by 
Java programs. This makes the use of "write gates" practical.

D programs tend to only lightly use GC, and using "write gates" would speed up 
the GC collection cycle, but it would drastically slow down the rest of the code.

It's all tradeoffs.